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The Brain As An Organ Of Mind

The Brain As An Organ Of Mind

Charlton Bastian, H.

Paperback

PhilosophyHealth GeneralMedical Reference

ISBN10: 9354502075
ISBN13: 9789354502071
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 770
Weight: 2.45
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How does thought take shape in tissue? In Victorian England medicine, H. Charlton Bastian confronted that question with a clinician's precision and a philosopher's nerve. Ideas that still spark debate. The Brain As An Organ Of Mind is a classic neuroscience treatise that brings the mind brain relationship into sharp focus, tracing how observation, pathology, and experiment fed early cerebral localization theory. Bastian writes from the front line of 19th century neurology, weighing what the physiology of the brain can and cannot explain about sensation, speech, memory, and will. Read as medical history, it captures a moment when modern neurology and psychology were being forged; read as a philosophy of mind classic, it shows the enduring tension between mechanism and meaning. It is equally rewarding for medical history students, history of neuropsychology readers, and anyone seeking rigorous neuroscience classroom reading beyond the textbook. Its arguments sit at the crossroads of physiology, psychiatry, and early psychology, revealing how doctors reasoned before modern imaging. The prose is brisk and combative, rewarding casual readers while giving collectors a vivid artifact of Victorian science. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure. This complete text edition, presented as a public domain reprint, belongs on the shelf of classic-literature collectors and curious general readers alike: a landmark work that illuminates how we came to think about the brain, and why those arguments still matter.

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